The Bowling Green Opera Theater serves the educational needs of students in the College of Musical Arts, while offering an array of operatic performances to audiences in Bowling Green and the surrounding northwest Ohio community.

Each year the opera theater offers two, fully staged productions with orchestra, along with workshop and scenes programs and opera outreach to local schools. The opera theater and the voice area work hand in hand to create a sense of community, mutual respect and collaboration, which serve to enhance the entire opera experience for our students.

The pedagogical goal of the opera theater is to provide voice students with the opportunity to develop their stagecraft and dramatic interpretation, and integrate them with their singing skills through practical performance experience.

Auditions for the opera take place the semester before each production.  Singers are asked to prepare two contrasting pieces with one in English.

The opera theater performs predominantly in the Moore Musical Arts Center’s Kobacker Hall. The Wolfe Center for the Arts houses the new theater for opera productions.

To sample the opera theater at the college, select one of the pieces from the playlist. The player will automatically move to the next track at the conclusion of the previous track, but will not automatically restart. Adjusting the volume is possible by interacting with the bars in the upper-right of the player.